Equality: Freedom is responsiblity

For example: When I grew up in the 1950s the men in my family had been taught how to use weapons by the time they were 4 to 6 years old for about 400 years already. So, because it was the 1950s and more (civilized) than before my father waited until I was 8 to allow his mother to give me my first rifle which had been bought for my father during the 1920s. It was a .22 Remington pump rifle and it had definitely seen better days. But it meant a lot to my grandmother for me to have it. She had kept it in her closet to fight off intruders or critters if necessary since my father had grown up. However, because I was raised in this "hunters" culture that had already been this way for 400 or more years already. I was as safe as most adults with my .22 rifle.

So, the danger comes when children who are not taught anything about guns find one and think it is a toy because they don't know any better because no one has taught them anything about guns at all except the TV. So, the first thing they do is to point it at a friend just like they see on TV. And often then the friend is dead or seriously wounded because the kid didn't know it was a real gun or that it was loaded for home protection.

So, as you can see freedom is responsibility. And it doesn't matter if it is a male or female or a child or adult. If that person isn't taught how to deal with reality there are going to be serious problems of one kind or another.
Children are raised often like they are today,   as if they were pets (children are not pets they are little adults). So, if you treat a child like a pet rather than a little adult like I was treated when I grew up they cannot deal with anything real. Because nothing is very real to them because they have been treated like pets and not little adults.

In order to actually be a little adult, consequences of every action must be taught young. If real fear isn't instilled in a child about natural consequences how to you expect a young man or woman to believe that cars can kill when they start driving one? If their subconscious believes that they are driving in a video game they will soon die or be maimed as drivers or kill or maim someone else. This is just an unfortunate fact of life.